DOROTHY DAVIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 9

DOROTHY DAVIES

LAST NIGHT’S BROADCAST Broadcasting from IYa last night Dorothy Davies was heard to advantage, giving an earnest of the high standard of playing which will be heard in Wanganui on November 8 at the Opera House. Interviewed after she had finished her radio performance, Dorothy Davie's said: “ft is obvious that the centres of art have moved to London and New York. The best performances are heard only in these two places. Since the unrest on the Continent London is teeming with the greatest artists. Aldous Huxleyt say s that he will go to America as that is obviously to be the home of European culture and I must say that I hat e found America keen and receptive and anxious to absorb all that Europe ha.-, to teach. They go to Europe in droves to learn and it can be taken fol granted that America will not be lost m the changing order, Jewish Artists. “In the musical world so many of the greatest executants are Jews, they are not the creators—there is only one Mendelssohn—but performers and ‘secondary creators.’ Naturally since the Jewish persecutions in Germany ttnd the subsequent flight of these people the standard of performance m Germany has deteriorated in a marked degree. Germany's loss has been the gain of England and America in music as in other fields of artistic and scientific and commercial endeavour.' 1